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![AUI/NRAO Representative in Chile to Join Advisory Council of ComunidadMujer](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Paulina-585x300.jpg)
Paulina Bocaz, the AUI Representative and NRAO Assistant Director for Chile, has been selected to join the Advisory Council of “ComunidadMujer.”
![Chilean Senate Distinguishes ALMA For 1st Image of Black Hole](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Chilean-Senate-2019-04-17-at-6.27.46-PM-585x300.jpeg)
The Senate of Chile recognized ALMA for its role in obtaining the first image of a black hole as part of the Event Horizon Telescope.
An important milestone was reached with the publication of the 1000th peer-reviewed paper using ALMA data.
![ADMX experiment hall at the University of Washington](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ADMX-20180308_Axion-Dark-Matter_0245-S-585x300.jpg)
NRAO/CDL technology part of the hunt for the dark matter particle at the Axion Dark Matter Experiment.
![2018 Jansky Fellowships Awarded](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DSC04425_stitch-1_-1-585x300.jpg)
NRAO is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 Jansky Fellowships.
![VLA Y Array](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/62Z9320-585x300.jpg)
NRAO’s National and International Non-Traditional Exchange (NINE) Program has collaborated with the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) to launch a pilot initiative titled Multi-wavelength Astronomy Public Participation Program (MAPPP).
![ngVLA Logo](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ngvla_logo_with_name_rgb-585x300.jpg)
Using new funding from the National Science Foundation, NRAO has contracted with a firm to design and build an integrated circuit that implements an NRAO-developed technique to greatly improve the efficiency of data transmission for a next-generation radio telescope.
![The Atacama Millimeter/submillimeter Array](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gallery-images-largeCenteroftheArray_large-585x300.jpg)
The ALMA Board approved the development of a new spectrometer for the Morita Array designed and developed by Japan for the ALMA telescope.
![ALMA images of rotating galaxies on a background from the Hubble Space Telescope](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/DataVisualisation-585x300.jpg)
Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have formed in the Universe. These ‘newborns’ – observed as they appeared nearly 13 billion years ago – spun like a whirlpool, similar to our own Milky Way.
![Book Cover](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/4pillars-330x300.jpg)
New book tells the stories of four radio-astronomy pioneers who paved the way for today’s advanced observatories and also for some technologies that transformed our daily lives.